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ZIONIST SMEARS OF OSCAR-WINNING JONATHAN GLAZER  
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Juan Cole
March 12, 2024
Informed Comment
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_ Because Glazer’s statement accepting an Oscar threatens the
project some have called “Israelism,” a cult-like Zionism=Judaism
and “Jews must support Bibi” complex of beliefs, some Zionists
decided that he must be smeared and his reputation destroyed. _

Jonathan Glazer accepting Oscar for directing The Zone of Interest,

 

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brave and highly ethical
Oscar-award-winning director, Jonathan Glazer, has been targeted by
the crazies on the Zionist (Israeli-nationalist) right wing, as were
all the actors and film people who expressed horror at the genocide in
Gaza. Their allegations on social media are so bizarre and crazed that
they are being compared to the QAnon conspiracy theories of the
Trumpists. They are, in short, QZionism.

IMDB’s laconic description of Glazer’s masterpiece, based on a
novel by Martin Amis, goes this way: “Auschwitz commandant Rudolf
Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their
family in a house and garden beside the camp.” The film is an
indictment of what Hannah Arendt called “The Banality of Evil.”

The British national Glazer, however, clearly has a difficulty with
the Zionist Right, which has appropriated the Nazi Holocaust against
the Jews as a primary plank in its platform of bestowing impunity on
the Israeli government for whatever atrocity, whatever violation of
international humanitarian law, whatever genocide its leaders wish to
commit.

In his Oscar acceptance speech, Glazer said,

* “All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the
present — not to say, ‘Look what we did then,’ rather, ‘Look
what we do now.’ Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its
worst. It shaped all of our past and present. Right now, we stand here
as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by
an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many people. Whether
the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack in
Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?”

Here’s the clip:

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Daniel Arkin at NBC
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“Inside the Dolby Theatre, many in the audience could be seen
cheering and applauding. Sandra Hüller, the German actor who
portrayed Höss’ wife, Hedwig, appeared to be crying and put her
hand to her chest.”

He adds, “Billie Eilish, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef wore red pins
on the Oscars red carpet symbolizing calls for a cease-fire.”

Glazer’s international platform (19.5 million people watched live)
and his universalist sentiments posed a severe difficulty for the
Zionist right wing. Glazer was saying that the Holocaust was an event
in _human_ history, not solely in Jewish history, and that its
lesson is that dehumanization leads to atrocities and even genocide.
In wartime Nazi Germany Jews were called 
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lice, cockroaches, foxes, vultures.” And then they were murdered in
their millions by the National Socialist government.

Likewise, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called
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in Gaza “human animals.”

Glazer is aware that the Hamas commandos who killed over 600 Israeli
civilians on October 7, along with some 400 military personnel, also
dehumanized those Jews, allowing them to mow down attendees at a music
festival and left wing grandmothers at Kibbutz hamlets.

He was saying that this dehumanization, and its consequences in the
casual murder of other human beings, clearly needs to be resisted. But
how? How? is the existential question of the twenty-first century.

But for the current full-on fascist cabinet in Israel and its
cheerleaders in the United States, the Holocaust and October 7
aren’t about universal values, they are about Jews and Zionism. They
are antinomian in effect, justifying Israeli troops in committing any
action, any crime. They are a get out of jail free card for Zionists.
The Right denies that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza, even
though over 13,000 children have been killed in indiscriminate bombing
and another 12,000 women noncombatants have been killed. How else,
they ask, could you destroy Hamas? Even President Biden, however, has
begun pointing out in public that there are other ways of targeting a
small terrorist organization than killing tens of thousands of
noncombatants.

Glazer also violated the tenets of the Zionist Right by saying that
his film about the Holocaust is not about what people did in the 1940s
but about what people do today. His clear implication is that the
tactics the Israeli government is using in Gaza must be condemned for
the same reason that the Holocaust must be condemned. These actions,
while of entirely different scale, are atrocities that spring from a
denial of our common humanity.

Glazer’s most controversial assertion was, “Right now, we stand
here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being
hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many
people.”

He was saying that the Zionist far right of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and
Smotrich had attempted to hijack the Jewish religion to which Glazer
and some of his colleagues adhere, and that he rejects this
appropriation.

This statement strikes at the core of Zionist nationalism, which
insists that Judaism and Zionism are identical. Non-Zionist Jews from
this point of view are traitors. Never mind that in opinion polling
significant numbers of American Jews express discomfort with the right
wing Zionism that has come to dominate Israeli politics.

Because Glazer’s brief, historic statement profoundly threatened the
project of what some have called “Israelism,” a cult-like
induction of people into the Zionism=Judaism and “Jews must support
Bibi” complex of beliefs, some Zionists decided that he must be
smeared and his reputation destroyed.

Batya Ungar-Sargon, _Newsweek_ deputy opinion editor, author of a
book on how “woke” media is allegedly undermining democracy, and
inveterate propagandist for the Israeli Right, presented a gross
distortion of what Glazer said on X:

Even X’s community comments eventually flagged the post as
misleading, though it is actually a horrid lie, and it is hard to
understand why anyone should ever again take seriously anything she
says.

Her posting was widely reposted and paraphrased on the Zionist Right,
in a disinformation campaign attempting to make it look as though
Glazer were an apostate and had abandoned Jewish values rather than
standing up for them.

An attempt was also made to push back against the red pins worn by
numerous celebrities at the Oscars, symbolizing their call for an
immediate ceasefire in Gaza (which in polling the majority of
Americans of both parties desire).

Foreign policy expert Matt Duss pointed to another disinformation
campaign:

Another poster saw a pattern:

In fact, the red pins were distributed by ArtistsForCeasefire
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who said, “The pin symbolises collective support for an immediate
and permanent cease-fire, the release of all of the hostages and for
the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza,”

Israeli propaganda, or Hasbara, as Duss points out, has reached the
level of irrationality and of sheer crazy that characterizes QAnon
conspiracies such as Pizzagate and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s
Jewish space lasers
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That is why we increasingly have to consider what comes out of AIPAC,
the Israeli Prime Minister’s office and other Zionist organizations
as QZionism, a form of information pollution.

_Juan Cole [[link removed]] is the founder and chief editor
of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History
at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other
books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Follow him on Twitter at @jricole
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* The Zone of Interest
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